Dean Hess, PhD, RRT, FAARC'After many years in the position, in 2016 Dean R. Hess retired as Assistant Director of Respiratory Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, but stayed on per diem and continues to be very active professionally. He is a lecturer in the MS in respiratory care leadership program at Northeastern University. Since he first began working as a respiratory therapist in 1972, his experience has included clinical, research, teaching, and administrative responsibilities. For 10 years he was Editor-in-Chief of Respiratory Care, the official science journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care, and is currently the Managing Editor of this journal. He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery and Simulation in Healthcare. His academic interests include aerosol delivery techniques, adult mechanical ventilation, and critical care monitoring.Dean is a Fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

He has published more than 200 papers and several books, and his books have been translated into several foreign languages. He has had a high level of professional activity, including committee appointments with the American Association for Respiratory Care, the American Thoracic Society, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and two years as president of the National Board for Respiratory Care. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and around the world. Dean has received numerous honors, including the Forrest M. Bird Lifetime Scientific Achievement Award; American Association for Respiratory Care Life Membership; American College of Chest Physicians Simon Rodbard Memorial Honor Lecture; Jimmy A. Young Medal; Robert H. Miller, RRT, Award; Chadwick Medal; Shubin-Weil Master Clinician/Teaching Award; SCCM Presidential Citation; Hector Leon Garza MD Achievement Award; and AARC Legends of Respiratory Care. He has received teaching awards from the medicine residents at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship program.